County: Armagh Site name: STATION ROAD, KELLS
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/04/112
Author: Stefanie McMullen, Archaeological Development Services Ltd, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30-50 Distillery Street, Belfast BT12 5BJ.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 714327m, N 897191m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.809585, -6.221469
Archaeological works were carried out in July 2004 in relation to the construction of apartments on a site occupied by derelict vernacular stone buildings and associated sheds to the rear, at Station Road, Kells. Before the development could proceed, it was recommended that test-trenching be implemented in order to ascertain a date for the standing stone buildings on the site, and also any archaeological deposits that might underlie them. Testing uncovered deposits relating to the buildings, which produced evidence of 19th/20th-century activity. No evidence of activity pre-dating the 19th/20th century was recovered to indicate an earlier date for the structures.
